The Secret War

A True History of Queensland's Native Police

By: Jonathan Richards

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Paperback | 3 March 2008 | Edition Number 1

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An authoritative and groundbreaking contribution to the study of Australian colonial history, this record reveals little-known information about a brutal police force of Aborigines that operated under the command of white officers on the Queensland frontier during the 19th century. Arguing that these native patrols&;which are charged with killing large numbers of indigenous people in Australia&;were a key part of a colonizing tactic used successfully across the the British Empire, this examination exposes native involvement in the white settlement of Australia, the cover-up of the murders by the native police forces, and the approval of the killings by government officials of the time.

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Ethnic Studies Indigenous Peoples Political Control & Freedoms

Map	p. ix
Prologue: A dispersal	p. 1
Introduction	p. 5
A reign of terror	p. 16
An armed and dangerous frontier	p. 44
European service in the Native Police	p. 82
Aboriginal service in the Native Police	p. 119
Disciplinary problems	p. 140
The Native Police and other colonial forces	p. 176
'They all must suffer': the question of genocide	p. 201
Acknowledgments	p. 209
The ranks and structure of the Native Police	p. 211
A nominal roll of the European members of the force	p. 220
Endnotes	p. 269
Abridged bibliography	p. 293
Index	p. 296
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